Construction began on this rural New York psychaitric hospital in 1927. At the time, the hospital was known to be the best of its kind in the country. It contained a working farm, power plant and industrial shops. Portions of the hospital are still in use, but buildings such as this one have been abandoned for years.
Photo: "Eight and Nine"
The four women's wards at this New York Tuberculosis Sanatorium, designed by architect Raymond F Almirall, were constructed between 1909-1911. Buildings 1, 3 and 4 were the general ward pavilions for women. Building 2 was the private room ward. The four story buildings were constructed with Southern Facing Solariums and the narrow rectangular shape helped greatly with cross-ventilation.
Photo: "Sun and Sea"
Sun streams into a former patient room of the male wards at Hudson River State Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Photo: "10"
Patient hallway inside Building 30, dating to the 1890's, at a State Hospital in Virginia.
Photo: "Coils"
Since the 2007 fire, the male wards at Hudson State Hospital have continued to collapse.
Photo: "Patchwork"
Dawn inside the Forst building in a New Jersey Psychiatric Hospital. This facility was the first public mental health facility in New Jersey, also the first Kirkbride in the United States, and was founded in 1848 by Dorothea Dix.
Photo: "Rabbit Hole"
The first patients were admitted to Weston State Hospital in 1864. This Kirkbride was the first West Virginia state funded building and deemed the largest hand cut stone masonry building in North America.
Photo: "The Fallout"
Inside the dormitory building at the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital in New York. This building contained dorm rooms, offices, day rooms and a seclusion wing.
Photo: "Bipolar"
A peeling rainbow mural on the fourth floor of Building 93 at Kings Park Psychiatric Hospital.
Photo: "Counter Weight"
Many famous people were once placed behind the walls of Kings Park Psychiatric Center. Bud Powell, a famous jazz painist once played on an old upright piano in a rec room inside this building, Building 93.
Photo: "Transpose"
Rough & Ready Island in Stockton, California served as a major communications outpost for submarine activities in the Pacific during the Cold War. It opened in 1944 and closed in 1996 during the Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
Photo: "Cornerstone"
The Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital was founded in New York, in 1870 as a state asylum for "the care and treatment of the insane and the inebriate upon the principles of medicine known as homeopathic." It was the first hospital of its kind in the United States when it opened in 1874 and during the first year, sixty nine patients were treated at this facility.